The Roaring 20's
It’s the end of a decade… a fucking decade I tell you. I'm still in the part of my life where I’ve only seen a couple of those so forgive me if I am shocked at how quickly it has flown by - but it really has.
Lacking in the writing department
I haven’t written on this blog as much as I’d like, truth be told I’ve thrown myself into work a lot over this last year or so, with much berating from friends and family. But I love writing and so here I am trying to build up that habit again.
If I look back over the last year I can see a couple of challenges that have blocked my writing and if I can find ways to remove those then I hope my ambition of writing more will become more realised.
The first issue I have is the classic writers block, not in a sense that I don’t know what to write because I have an idea every day but the type of writing is where I tend to run off the trail. That is, I always have in mind a think-piece or some big metaphorical statement that I want to make - but that type of writing takes a lot of mental energy and a whole lot of editing, which means more time and ultimately less articles written. So my focus will be to try to just write something every week, almost so that I am writing just for the sake of writing. I will still keep those bigger pieces on a strong cadence but getting into the habit keeps those writing muscles well stretched and ready.
The second issue I have is the technology needed in order for me to write or more specifically, to upload an article to this blog. Unfortunately Squarespace has decommissioned their blogging app which, for all its flaws, was a seamless way of being able to upload some thoughts quickly and on the go. As I write now it’s on my MacBook but that won’t always be suitable so I need to work out a nice way to solve this. Maybe there’s something cool I can do with iOS shortcuts? We’ll see.
Into the next decade
For me personally the last few years have been a rollercoaster, both in the “wow this is amazing” sense and in the “stop I want to get off” sense, such is life. But I really am excited for the next decade. Ten years is a really long time and I hope that the hard work that I have been putting in will bear fruit in the world of work.
I have some amazing people in my life, whom I love more than anything else in the world and the most exciting part of my future will be spending my time with them. If this blog ever had an objective then it is to be able to look back at the end of my life and read all of the wonderful memories, to relive the special moments and to know that it was all worth it in the end.
